[HTML][HTML] Genetic manipulation and tools in myxobacteria for the exploitation of secondary metabolism

X Yue, D Sheng, L Zhuo, YZ Li - Engineering Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Myxobacteria are famous for their capacity for social behavior and natural product
biosynthesis. The unique sociality of myxobacteria is not only an intriguing scientific topic but …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple chaperonins in bacteria—novel functions and non-canonical behaviors

CMS Kumar, SC Mande, G Mahajan - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2015 - Elsevier
Chaperonins are a class of molecular chaperones that assemble into a large double ring
architecture with each ring constituting seven to nine subunits and enclosing a cavity for …

Extraordinary expansion of a Sorangium cellulosum genome from an alkaline milieu

K Han, Z Li, R Peng, L Zhu, T Zhou, L Wang, S Li… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Complex environmental conditions can significantly affect bacterial genome size by
unknown mechanisms. The So0157-2 strain of Sorangium cellulosum is an alkaline …

Construction and comparison of synthetic microbial consortium system (SMCs) by non-living or living materials immobilization and application in acetochlor …

J Liu, X Zhou, T Wang, L Fan, S Liu, N Wu, A Xu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The microbial degradation of pesticides by pure or mixed microbial cultures has been
thoroughly explored, however, they are still difficult to apply in real environmental …

Deficiency in cytosine DNA methylation leads to high chaperonin expression and tolerance to aminoglycosides in Vibrio cholerae

A Carvalho, D Mazel, Z Baharoglu - Plos Genetics, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotic resistance has become a major global issue. Understanding the molecular
mechanisms underlying microbial adaptation to antibiotics is of keen importance to fight …

A novel stress response mechanism, triggered by indole, involved in quorum quenching enzyme MomL and iron-sulfur cluster in Muricauda olearia Th120

Y Wang, H Li, X Cui, XH Zhang - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Indole, as a signal molecule, is involved in multiple physiological behavior including biofilm
formation, antibiotic resistance and virulence. In this study, we demonstrated that indole was …

Dosage constraint of the ribosome-associated molecular chaperone drives the evolution and fates of its duplicates in bacteria

T Wan, L Zhuo, Z Pan, R Chen, H Ma, Y Cao, J Wang… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Gene duplication events happen prevalently during evolution, and the mechanisms
governing the loss or retention of duplicated genes are mostly elusive. Our genome …

A Dual-Functional Orphan Response Regulator Negatively Controls the Differential Transcription of Duplicate groEL s and Plays a Global Regulatory Role in …

L Zhuo, T Wan, Z Pan, J Wang, D Sheng, Y Li - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Differential transcription of functionally divergent duplicate genes is critical for bacterial cells
to properly and competitively function in the environment, but the transcriptional regulation …

Allopatric integrations selectively change host transcriptomes, leading to varied expression efficiencies of exotic genes in Myxococcus xanthus

LP Zhu, XJ Yue, K Han, ZF Li, LS Zheng, XN Yi… - Microbial Cell …, 2015 - Springer
Background Exotic genes, especially clustered multiple-genes for a complex pathway, are
normally integrated into chromosome for heterologous expression. The influences of …

Effects of transcriptional mode on promoter substitution and tandem engineering for the production of epothilones in Myxococcus xanthus

X Yue, X Cui, Z Zhang, W Hu, Z Li, Y Zhang… - Applied microbiology and …, 2018 - Springer
Promoter optimization is an economical and effective approach to overexpress heterologous
genes and improve the biosynthesis of valuable products. In this study, we swapped the …